European leaders host Musk, chase Tesla investment
PARIS: Billionaire Elon Musk swept into Paris on Friday for his second meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in recent weeks, as European capitals jostle for investment from his electric…
SpaceX Starship Explodes
TEXAS: Although his uncrewed SpaceX (the biggest rocket ever built) exploded during its maiden flight here on Thursday (21st of April, 2023) Elon Musk lauded the team for an exciting…
US broadcaster NPR quits Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO: US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday (12th April, 2023) said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk's tumultuous…
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Twitter fate in doubt as employees defy Musk ultimatum
SAN FRANCISCO: The future of Twitter seemed to hang in the balance Friday after its offices were locked down and key employees announced their departures in defiance of an ultimatum…
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Twitter sacks half of staff as Musk launches overhaul
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter sacked half of its 7,500-strong staff on Friday as new owner Elon Musk launched his major overhaul of the troubled company just a week after his blockbuster…
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Twitter mass layoffs begin
SAN FRANCISCO: Thousands of Twitter employees were ordered to stay home Friday to await a bracing round of layoffs that could see half of the payroll axed as new owner…
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Musk on scrapping of Twitter deal
NEW YORK: Elon Musk's lawyers have filed a fresh notice to terminate his $44 billion buyout of Twitter, citing whistle-blower testimony by the platform's former security chief as "distinct" justification for…
Elon Musk sells Tesla shares
WASHINGTON: Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to legal filings, amid a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal. The Tesla…
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Musk on deal to buy Twitter
NEW YORK: Elon Musk said on Friday (13th of May, 2022) he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter, sending shares in the social media…
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Elon Musk’s move to buy Twitter faces roadblocks
WASHINGTON: Even for the richest person on the planet, buying Twitter was always going to be a challenge - a highly complex financial transaction now made even trickier by a defensive…
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Musk buys large stake in Twitter
NEW YORK: Twitter's shares soared after Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed on Monday a large stake in the social media company, which he has criticized for its approach to speech rights.…
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Elon Musk slammed by Chinese web users
BEIJING: Chinese web users slammed billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday after Beijing said its space station took evasive action to avoid hitting two of his SpaceX satellites, dealing a blow to…
SpaceX prototype blasts off … and crashes in fireball
WASHINGTON: A prototype of the future giant SpaceX rocket Starship -- which the company hopes will become its go-to for Mars missions -- crashed in a fiery explosion during a…
Virgin’s Hyperloop carries passengers for the first time
LOS ANGELES: The Virgin Hyperloop made its first journey carrying passengers Sunday, in a test the company claimed represented a major step forward for the "groundbreaking" technology capable of transporting…
Charging ahead: Tesla teases big news on ‘Battery Day’
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla chief Elon Musk has promised "insane" battery news at a streamed event after the company's annual shareholders' meeting on Tuesday. Speculation includes that Tesla will announce it…
Indian PM Modi’s Twitter account hacked
NEW DELHI: The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hacked, the social media giant confirmed Thursday. Tweets were sent from the prime minister's feed asking for…
SpaceX completes test flight of Mars rocket prototype
HOUSTON: SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use…
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Twitter attack was work of young hacker pals: NYT
SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, reported The New York Times.…
Twitter investigating major hack targeting high-profile users
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers who the social network believes targeted…
Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos hacked
SAN FRANCISCO: The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in a massive hack.…
Tesla hikes prices for Model 3, other cars in China
SHANGHAI: Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. had decided to raise prices for some vehicles in China as the Chinese currency Yuan trades at its weakest levels in more than a decade.…
Tesla’s Musk, Alibaba’s Ma talk aliens and AI, skip issues like trade
SHANGHAI: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba founder Jack Ma discussed Mars and artificial intelligence but steered clear of the U.S.-China trade war in their first joint appearance on Thursday…
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SpaceX says 60 Starlink satellites will grow harder to see
WASHINGTON: SpaceX said Friday that the first 60 satellites in its "Starlink" constellation, which is intended to provide internet from space, will be less and less visible from Earth as…
SpaceX satellites pose new headache for astronomers
SpaceX satellites pose new headache for astronomers
WASHINGTON: It looked like a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster: an astronomer in the Netherlands captured footage of a train of brightly-lit SpaceX satellites ascending through the night sky this…